William Borah

William Edgar Borah (29 June 1865-19 January 1940) was a US Senator from Idaho (R) from 4 March 1907 to 19 January 1940, succeeding Fred Dubois and preceding John W. Thomas. He was known for his outspoken progressive views and his support for isolationism.

Biography
William Edgar Borah was born in Fairfield, Illinois on 29 June 1865, and he studied in Kansas and qualified in Illinois in 1889, before becoming a lawyer in Idaho. He served in the US Senate from 1906 until his 1940 death, serving as a member of the Republican Party. Borah was a prominent isolationist, and he opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt's efforts to help the British in their fight against Nazi Germany in 1939. He had a distinguished legislative record, helping to bring into being the Department of Labor and the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments to the US Constitution, legalizing income taxes and direct elections to the Senate.